Word: chatterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play, Thompson again is seeking an inappropriate mood. Miller provides some fine telling moments which are worthy of pauses, but the bulk of the play must be quick-paced. The dialogue is, after all, essentially locker room banter; under Thompson's direction it is transmuted into nervous chatter at a dull cocktail party...
Model planes go catatonic in midflight. Automatic garage doors open mysteriously in the night. Truckers' chatter interrupts ministers' sermons over church public address systems. Traffic lights go berserk. TV pictures flutter. And a solid-state sewing machine suddenly shouts to a startled Indiana housewife the password of the invading force, "Breaker! Breaker!" These strange goings-on are caused not by UFOs or other extraterrestrial goblins, but by RFI (radio frequency interference), an electronic epidemic spread by the nation's 15 million Citizens Band radios (TIME...
With American and Soviet ships hovering off the Lebanese coast, with routine Israeli naval patrols operating in the area and with Syrian vessels sealing off Lebanese ports, the air waves of the Eastern Mediterranean crackled with the ships' radio and electronic chatter. "It is crowded as hell out there," said an Israeli intelligence official, "even if you cannot see them all together...
...getting a hearing outside of Washington, too. It now appears in 60 mostly medium-size dailies whose editors sense an appetite among readers for capital chatter. "New York's Great White Way is not so bright and glittering any more," says Bill Bondurant, managing editor of the Fort Lauderdale News. "The center of gossip today is Washington...
...crowd in front of Mem Church mostly ignored this sole dissident, turning to him only occasionally to note his reaction to speakers. Most chose to listen to the music, speeches, and poetry, laze in the sun, and chatter...